Learn how science notebooks can help your students plan and carry out hands-on investigations. From collecting data to constructing explanations, using notebooks can solicit and deepen your students' thinking.

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Planning investigations
Planning Investigations

Use science notebooks to make your classroom experiments both hands-on and minds-on.

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Framing With a Focus Question

Make the most of investigations with clear and specific focus questions.

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Carrying Out Investigations

How can notebooks enhance student learning during hands-on investigations?

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Norms and Notebooks

Learn how to establish and maintain a positive classroom culture for science learning.

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Talk Strategies with Notebooks

Tips for integrating academic conversations into science time.

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Collecting and Analyzing Data

The science notebook is a useful tool for both data stages: collection and analysis.

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Sketching for Observation

Scientific sketching is about looking at something so closely you notice something new.

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Using Sentence Frames

Enhance students’ academic vocabulary with science-specific sentence frames.

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Constructing Explanations

The materials are put away, the data is organized, the graphs have been made… now what do you do?